Inverse roughening transition in the staggered body-centered solid-on-solid model
Year: 1994
Type: article
Abstract: The F model and inverse F model in a staggered electric field are examined by using transfer matrices and finite-size scaling. It is shown that such a field induces a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the inverse F model, corresponding to an ``inverse'' roughening transition in the body-centered solid-on-solid representation: a crystal facet appears above a certain temperature. It disappears again in the limit of infinite temperature. We find the location of this phase transition as a function of staggered field and for a specific choice of this field we estimate the facet size as a function of temperature.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Institutions: Utrecht University, Delft University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2040047295